1971 LS6 Chevelle SS Production

[MultiMopars]

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Very true. It does not mean it made production. But if you owned that test car today - say someone hauls it out of a barn next week with some of the road-tester's handwritten notes in the glovebox - it would be considered a factory built 1971 LS6 Chevelle. That is all I am saying.

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But that's where I disagree again - there's no saying what the car started out as. For all we know, it could have been a regular Malibu 350 that was converted to an SS454 for more promotional purposes.

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This doesn't answer my question.

The reason I possed it was to see if the engines WERE coded in order to keep them seperate for over the counter sales applications OR simply for installation applications on the vehicle assembly line. This COULD determine if these engines were in fact slated for new vehicle installation.

[Rixls6]

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Very true. It does not mean it made production. But if you owned that test car today - say someone hauls it out of a barn next week with some of the road-tester's handwritten notes in the glovebox - it would be considered a factory built 1971 LS6 Chevelle. That is all I am saying.

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But that's where I disagree again - there's no saying what the car started out as. For all we know, it could have been a regular Malibu 350 that was converted to an SS454 for more promotional purposes.

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This doesn't answer my question.

The reason I possed it was to see if the engines WERE coded in order to keep them seperate for over the counter sales applications OR simply for installation applications on the vehicle assembly line. This COULD determine if these engines were in fact slated for new vehicle installation.

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They did sell both stick and auto trans versions OTC that were coded as such, for a year or two after the car's production. I've seen both CRR and CRV code 454's that were casting dates of `71, but those codes were used originally in 1970.

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The copy says they "ordered it", and "checked the box for LS6" but who knows.

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[Late BrakeU2]

It's well documented the first LS6 pre production cars were converted 396's,of those dedicated for eval and buff mag articles all went to the crusher- because they were not DOT or emissions certified.

I think we all want to believe in cars of this mystique- how many have actually been found?. Where's the Z16 vert?. Urban legend is great fodder for discussion- but until you get undisputed proof..i'm from Cali via Missouri

Buff mag articles like the Bill Clements L89/LS6, and this one are just irresponsible journalisim IMO. They perpetuate the myth, just like that Reggie ZL1 rebody at BJ last year.

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It's well documented the first LS6 pre production cars were converted 396's,of those dedicated for eval and buff mag articles all went to the crusher- because they were not DOT or emissions certified.

I think we all want to believe in cars of this mystique- how many have actually been found?. Where's the Z16 vert?. Urban legend is great fodder for discussion- but until you get undisputed proof..i'm from Cali via Missouri

Buff mag articles like the Bill Clements L89/LS6, and this one are just irresponsible journalisim IMO. They perpetuate the myth, just like that Reggie ZL1 rebody at BJ last year.

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I totally agree that the August 1995 article you are referring to on Bill Clements fake aluminum-headed LS6 vert was irresponsible.

But the article I attached is an original road test from 1971. The magazine was simply testing and reporting on something they were told would be available on that day. It's not their fault a change of plans may have happened a month or two later.

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The copy says they "ordered it", and "checked the box for LS6" but who knows.

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Actually, Marty Schorr knows, he wrote the article. Perhaps x Baldwin Motion or someone could ring him up and get his driving impressions.

[Mr70]

Marty told me @SCR6 that the Gold 1971 LS-6 Chevelle was a Mule that never made it to public consumption and was picked up & destroyed by GM,later on after that article was written.
Thanks to a few tree huggers,but mostly the insurance companies.

[BUIZILLA]

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But that's where I disagree again - there's no saying what the car started out as. For all we know, it could have been a regular Malibu 350 that was converted to an SS454 for more promotional purposes.

[/ QUOTE ] if you knew ANYTHING about Chevy's at all, you wouldn't have typed that... go back to your Schwinn bicycles... oh wait, you weren't born then either..

[BUIZILLA]

the 3680# test weight is interesting in itself...

uhhhhhh, nope.. LOL